diff --git a/Shorewall-perl/Shorewall/Chains.pm b/Shorewall-perl/Shorewall/Chains.pm
index e66adb438..6f389d57b 100644
--- a/Shorewall-perl/Shorewall/Chains.pm
+++ b/Shorewall-perl/Shorewall/Chains.pm
@@ -273,6 +273,7 @@ sub add_file( $$ ) {
 	add_command $chainref, '';
 
 	while ( $line = <EF> ) {
+	    chomp $line;
 	    add_command $chainref, $line;
 	}
 
diff --git a/Shorewall-perl/Shorewall/Rules.pm b/Shorewall-perl/Shorewall/Rules.pm
index 96543982a..81b5e0e45 100644
--- a/Shorewall-perl/Shorewall/Rules.pm
+++ b/Shorewall-perl/Shorewall/Rules.pm
@@ -491,8 +491,6 @@ sub add_common_rules() {
 	new_standard_chain output_chain( $interface );
     }
     
-    add_file $filter_table->{INPUT}, 'initdone';
-
     setup_blacklist;
 
     $list = find_hosts_by_option 'nosmurfs';
@@ -856,7 +854,7 @@ sub process_macro ( $$$$$$$$$$$ ) {
 }
 
 #
-# Once a rule has been completely resolved by macro expansion, it is processed by this function.
+# Once a rule has been completely resolved by macro expansion and wildcard (source and/or dest zone == 'all'), it is processed by this function.
 #
 sub process_rule1 ( $$$$$$$$$ ) {
     my ( $target, $source, $dest, $proto, $ports, $sports, $origdest, $ratelimit, $user ) = @_;
diff --git a/Shorewall-perl/releasenotes.txt b/Shorewall-perl/releasenotes.txt
index 03968e001..0128a5208 100644
--- a/Shorewall-perl/releasenotes.txt
+++ b/Shorewall-perl/releasenotes.txt
@@ -84,11 +84,10 @@ e) Because the compiler is now written in Perl, your compile-time
 
 f) The 'refresh' command is now synonymous with 'restart'.
 
-g) Some run-time scripts will need to be converted to write their
+g) Some run-time scripts will need to be changed to write their
    iptables commands to file descriptor 3 in iptables-restore format
    rather than running those commands.
 
-	initdone
 	maclog
 
    Details to follow.
@@ -96,8 +95,11 @@ g) Some run-time scripts will need to be converted to write their
    Some run-time scripts are simply eliminated because they no longer
    make any sense under Shorewall-perl:
 
-	continue  - Under Shorewall-perl, nothing is done between
-		    'continue' and 'initdone'
+	initdone  - The these two scripts assumed a model where the
+	continue    chains were built in parallel. In the
+		    iptables-restore model, chains are built serially
+		    within tables and tables are build serially.  
+
 	refresh   - The 'refresh' command is the same as 'restart'
 	refreshed